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The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission released draft guidelines on April 7th for the environmental review of two separate projects proposed for the Bruce Nuclear Station near Kincardine, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron. Bruce Power Inc. and Ontario Power Generation are the proponents for the projects. Bruce Power is proposing the construction of up to four new nuclear reactors at the existing Bruce Nuclear Site, located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron, north of Kincardine. The project is expected to generate approximately 4,000 megawatts of electricity to the Ontario grid.
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SASKATOON -- A lake that helps provide drinking water to about 40 per cent of Saskatchewan residents is the provincial power utility's preferred site for a nuclear power plant, a national media outlet reported Wednesday. CBC News said a report by Stantec Consulting Ltd., prepared in February 2007, says a power plant at Elbow, near Lake Diefenbaker in southern Saskatchewan, would be preferable to other sites.
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OTTAWA — Does Stephen Harper’s Conservative government have a hidden nuclear agenda? Not if you happen to live outside Canada. The Canadian government has been campaigning internationally for months to add this country to the small, tightly circumscribed club of nuclear enrichment states. But the diplomatic arm-twisting only came to light less than three weeks ago, when the United States announced it was dropping its insistence on a ban on uranium enrichment technology to non-nuclear states.
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Alberta and Saskatchewan are competing to house Western Canada's first commercial nuclear power plant, Saskatchewan's Natural Resources Minister Bill Boyd confirmed Tuesday. The energy point man for the recently elected and decidedly pro-business Saskatchewan Party said his government has held "early" talks with Bruce Power LP, the private nuclear operator from western Ontario, which laid out plans in March for a $10-billion-plus nuclear complex near Peace River, in Alberta's northwest Peace Country, operating by 2017.
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"This is a matter of life and death," he says. "New Brunswick has the highest rate of cancer in Canada. So why would you want to bring in something to cause more cancer?" Exploratory drilling has been going on in New Brunswick for the past two years. A large supply of uranium has been found between Harvey and New Maryland. There's also interest in opening a mine outside of Moncton. If approved, mining could begin within 12 years.
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It is all too easy for a politician to claim a 'silent majority' supports him, but for it to be even half-way credible, some evidence to support the claim is needed, and New Brunswick Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault's claim about uranium exploration and mining is, frankly, ludicrous and without basis. Caption The claim smacks of political desperation equalled only by the minister's arrogant contention that all that is really needed is "to educate the public."
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A metallurgical company in Lakefield is testing samples of rocks bearing uranium from a surface exploration and drilling project near Bancroft, a mining company announced yesterday. The final report from SGS Mineral Services Laboratory in Lakefield is nearing completion, Bancroft Uranium Inc. states in an update on its Monmouth uranium project. "The Bancroft area is well known for historic uranium production where four uranium mines once operated, producing a total of 14,862,653 pounds of U308 (a type of uranium) between 1956 and 1982," Bancroft Uranium states.
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FREDERICTON - Natural Resources Minister Donald Arseneault isn't backing down from his position that uranium exploration doesn't pose any dangers, despite British Columbia's recent decision to ban exploration of the element. "Every jurisdiction has its own premise on why they should go in a certain direction or not, and it's no different for New Brunswick," said Arseneault.
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VANCOUVER -- The province flagged its intention to close the door on uranium mining in British Columbia in meetings with industry groups last year, says Kevin Krueger, Minister of State for Mining. "We did have a consultation with [industry groups] last year about our intention to move in this direction," Mr. Krueger said yesterday in an interview.
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VANCOUVER -- British Columbia has slapped an official moratorium on uranium exploration and development in the province, reinforcing a long-standing informal ban on the nuclear fuel and dashing the hopes of companies that hoped to take advantage of soaring prices for the commodity. The ban, announced yesterday, makes B.C. a no-go zone for uranium and confirms a moratorium put in place in 1980 by a previous government responding to anti-nuclear sentiment in the province.
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TORONTO, April 25 /CNW Telbec/ - It was safe until the explosion. Tomorrow's anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 recalls all the dangers of nuclear power, vividly portrayed in a new website that poses the question: What if a similar accident happened in Toronto? The site, 30km.ca, superimposes the 30 km evacuation zone that was permanently depopulated after the Chernobyl accident onto the Greater Toronto Area. Using the Pickering nuclear station as the epicenter, the website outlines a disaster scenario that would displace 2.5 million people from Yonge Street to Oshawa.
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CALGARY, Alberta, April 23 (Reuters) - The Alberta government has appointed a panel of scientific, business, economic experts to study the pros and cons of nuclear power as one developer considers a C$10 billion ($9.8 billion) plant amid opposition by some environmentalists.
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Today is Earth Day and given the overwhelming opposition to the uranium exploration now occurring across New Brunswick, it is an good time for Premier Shawn Graham to signal that he and his government take our environment seriously. Caption The public has spoken: benefits from uranium mining are not worth the hazards and potential hazards that come with it.
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The price of uranium is skyrocketing, and we're a have-not province with aspirations of self-sufficiency and a government apparently willing to make major changes to achieve that goal. This gives New Brunswickers two big problems to consider. The first problem with the speculation about uranium mining in New Brunswick is environmental. It's no good to start exporting uranium if there's a risk you'd have to start importing water, environment contaminant clean-up service providers, and oncologists. No provincial government should be so blinded by a quick buck as to sell out a crucial parcel of the province permanently. (For all practical considerations, one should never consider a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years as anything less than permanent.)
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In a scenario that is becoming increasingly common in communities around the province, nearly 250 concerned community members gathered in Irishtown this weekend to hear the potential risks of uranium exploration and mining. While the Departments of Environment and Natural Resources attempt to alleviate public fear of the uranium exploration which is currently being undertaken around the province, efforts from those who oppose the exploration who are looking to have their voices heard appears to be strengthening.
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The Alberta Liberal Opposition is raising concerns that the “fix is in” for nuclear power after a Conservative campaign manager was hired by the Ontario firm looking to build Alberta’s first nuclear reactor. The Liberals say Randy Dawson was hired recently by Bruce Power to do government relations after he ran a successful campaign for Premier Ed Stelmach’s Tories in the March provincial election.
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TORONTO — Electricity consumers in Ontario will be on the hook for about one half of a cost overrun that could reach 35 per cent for refurbishing reactors at a privately operated nuclear station. Bruce Power, the privately owned consortium that operates the nuclear station on Lake Huron, said yesterday that the total cost for getting two of the idle reactors up and running will now range between $3.1-billion and $3.4-billion, well above the initial estimate of $2.5-billion.
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